Talk:narcis

RFV discussion: September–December 2017

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narcis

Rfv-sense: "a beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narkissos whose name the plant allegedly took". Never heard of this, can't find it elsewhere. Added back in 2009 by Verbo, whose contributions were often rather dodgy. — Kleio (t · c) 16:40, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

I doubt anything can be found. The definition is in the WNT: "Als naam voor een jongmensch die met zijn gunstig uiterlijk zeer is ingenomen." But there are only two examples in the WNT, both capitalised and one with a Latin ending, so it's impossible to tell from that if it is anything other than an ad-hoc simile. The lower-case form "narcis", s. and pl., doesn't seem to be used this way in the DBNL corpus before 1900. We probably can add "Narcis" as an alternative form of "Narcissus" however. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:11, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

I've created Narcis and removed the sense at narcis#Dutch, so this is resolved. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 17:27, 19 December 2017 (UTC)